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| We left Etzweiler to have a look at the huge mining pit from an
'Aussichtspunt' (viewpoint), which was really impressive. Somewhere
below us a bulldozer was moving sand around. A shovel of sand from
a bulldozer is quite a lot of sand, but compared to the pit it was like using a teaspoon on the beach. |
 Too wide, but too good to leave it out. |
 The pit is about 84 km2 (kilometers) large and a few 100 meters deep. A bit right of the middle of the picture you can vaguely see one of the mining machines. . |
 For
a measure of scale, this is one of the machines in 'close up'. The
digging wheel alone has a diameter of 20 meters. (Picture borrowed
from Tagebauweb.de) |
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| Turning around we could see the smoke of another power station on the horizon. We decided to take a closer look and just drove towards the smoke. |
